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Digital goods and the new economy
Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
efficiency; provides further insight into why Open Source Software is a successful model of innovation and development in digital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746188
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The Creation of the EC Internal Market and Its Effects on the Competitiveness of Producers in Other Industrial Economies
Eliasson, Gunnar; Lundberg, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818474
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Research and development, spillovers, innovation systems, and the genesis of regional growth in Europe
Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Crescenzi, Riccardo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
regional innovation systems, and knowledge and socio-economic spillovers. This approach allows the discrimination between the …Research on the impact of innovation on regional economic performance in Europe has fundamentally followed three …) the study of the existence and efficiency of regional innovation systems; and (3) the examination of the geographical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071557
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The Labor Market Returns to Cognitive and Noncognitive Ability: Evidence from the Swedish Enlistment
Lindqvist, Erik; Westman, Roine - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009
We use data from the military enlistment for a large representative sample of Swedish men to assess the importance of cognitive and noncognitive ability for labor market outcomes. The measure of noncognitive ability is based on a personal interview conducted by a psychologist. Unlike...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771088
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Within-the-family education and its impact on equality
Nordblom, Katarina - EconWPA - 2001
This is a theoretical study of human-capital formation, where parental, as well as public investments are essential. Policy influence rich and poor parents differently when they make educational decisions. Rich parents allocate resources efficiently between physical bequests and educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125917
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Motives for investment in human capital of children: evidence from Indonesian Family Life Survey Data
Raut, Lakshmi K.; Tran, Lien H. - EconWPA - 1998
Two alternative models of parental investments in children's human capital are considered and tested empirically using the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS). The pure loan model and the reciprocity with two-sided altruism model yield different predictions about the effect of children's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408378
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Is there an impact of household computer ownership on children's educational attainment in Britain?
Schmitt, John; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
If personal computers (PCs) are used to enhance learning and information gathering across a variety of subjects, then a home computer might reasonably be considered an input in an educational production function. Using data on British youths from the British Household Panel Survey between 1991...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746246
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Rates of Depreciation of Human Capital Due to Nonuse
Gustafsson, Siv - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1977
How important for success on the job is uninterrupted labor force participation? Data on labor force status for a 15 year period for individual salaried employees in Swedish Industry makes possible the estimation of the effect of years of experience and years of non-experience on earnings. One...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684420
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Returns to apprenticeship training in Austria: evidence from failed firms
Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS estimates suggest that the returns are similar to those of other types of schooling. However, there is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071324
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Returns to apprenticeship training in Austria: evidence from failed firms
Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS estimates suggest that the returns are similar to those of other types of schooling. However, there is a lot of heterogeneity in the quality of apprenticeships offered, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071524